Apple corer, peeler, and slicer.



W, T. ROS Sn APPLE 0085B, PEBLER, AND SLIGER.

APPLICATION YELED JAN. 26, 1909.7

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

Application filed January 26, 1909. Serial No. 474,287.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER T. Ross, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada,residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, haveinvented a new and useful Apple Corer, Peeler, and Slicer, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for removing the core of an apple,and in combination therewith provision whereby the apple may be peeledand sliced. This last named portion of the device is equally applicable"for peeling and slicing potatoes or other vegetables.

In devices at present in use for removing the core from an apple thework is incom pletely done as a cylindrical portion is merely removedfrom stalk to nose and the wings of the seed cavity are left in thefruit: Further this imperfect removal necessitates the cylindricalremoved portion being larger than it otherwise would.be in an efiort toremove as much of the seed cavity as possible consistent with economy.

A principal object in the invention which is the subject ofthis'application has been the removal of a minimum dimension of thecylindrical portion first taken out and the subsequent removal of allthe seed cavity.

The invention is particularly described in the following specificationreference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5cross sections at A, B, C, and D respectively, and Fig. 6 a crosssection of an apple from which the core has been removed by its use.

The device comprises a portion 2 formed as a segment of a hollowcylinder of thin sheet metal or other suitable material the end 3 ofwhich is reduced to form an entering point. This semi-cylindricalportion is produced as at 4 so that 3 and 4 together are approXi--mately double the length of an ordinary apple, but between 2 and 3 thesides of the segment are inwardly crim ed as at 5 for a reason whichwill be explained later, and about the midlength of 4, a portion 6projects curved in profile and inwardly bent. The edge of 4 on which theprojection 6 is left and the edge of 6 itself are sharpened to asufiicient extent only to freely cut the apple 7 or its seed casing.

Beyond the end of 4 the device is flattened as at 7 and strengthenedalong its edges and at the extreme upper edge an a erture 8 is piercedby which the device may e hung up, the ortion punched from 8 beingoutwardly pro ected as at 9 and curved somewhat to afiord a device bywhich the eyes of a potato or spots or blemishes may be removed from thefruit or vegetable on which it is employed.

The flat portion 7 is 1011 'tudinully split as at 10 and 11, and one othe split edges of each is sharpened and the other stamped outward asshown in Fig. 4; 10 being stamped out only slightly, to be used for.

peeling a fruit or vegetable, and 11 to a greater extent that it may beused for slicing. In the use of the device the portion 2 is passedintothe apple from stalk to nose and rotated in it by which action a portionof the core and its connected Woody fiber is removed as a thin cylinder.The portion 4 is then pressed into the apple, the projection (3 cuttingits wa through to the center where the win s of t 1e seedcavity of thecore have been le 't when the cylindrical portion was removed. Thedevice is then rotated in the apple and the projection 6 will remove entirely the remainder of the core" left by 2. The device may be thenWithdrawn when the cylindrical portion carried by 2 and the remainder ofthe core carried in the hollow of 4 adjacent to 6 may be readilyremoved.

The crimps 5 hold the removed cylindrical portion and prevent it frombeing forced up into 4 and obstructing the action of 6 in cutting outthe core, when the device is pressed farther in to bring the projection6 into operation. It will be noticed that at no portion of the length of2 and 4 do the edges close in within the width of a semicircle so thatthe removed portion of the apple can be shaken from the device, and itis not necessary to pick it out as is the common requirement withdevices of this character where a removing portion such as 2 isprolonged from a tubular or approximately tubular portion into which theremoved apple core is forced and from which it must be removed with someexpenditure of trouble before the work can be proceeded with.

Having now particularly described my inmoving member projected from oneedge-of the semi-cylindricalmember intermediate the ends; of saidsemi-cylindrical member with the outer edge of said seedcase removing ismember located at a greater distance from the lon 'tudinal axis of thedevice than the edges the semi-cylindrical member.

portion having a scoop-like end and .having' an integrally formedcutting member projecting from one edge ofthe semi-cylindrical memberintermediate its ends and having a 'N flat portion at. one end, saidflat portion havzs ing a part stam ed to'form a slot, the edges ofwhich, slot eing sharpened toform a paring or slicing knife,substantially as shown and described.

4. As an article of manufacture, a device formed of a single piece ofsheet metal and comprising a substantially semi-cylindrical portionhavinga scoop-like end and having an integrally formed cutting memberprojecting from one edge of the semi-cylindrical .member intermediateits ends and having a flat portion at one end, said flat portion havinga part stamped to form a slot, the edges eing sha ened to form a.

of which slot I paring or slicing knlfe, an said flat end having apunched out tang portion to formja cutting projection for removing theeye of potatoes and the like.

5. A means for removing the core of a:

whole apple, comprising an elongated tubular seml-cylindricalpenetrating member having a gouging projection from one of its edgesintermediate the ends of the penetrating member, integrally formed withsaid member and of less length than said tubular member.

6. A means for removing the core of a whole apple, comprising anelongated semicylindrical member having a cutting end and provided witha curved integral cutting pro-y jection from one of the edges of saidsemicylindrical member, said cutting projection being locatedintermediate the ends o f'thesemi-cylindrical member, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signedqny name to this specification in thepresence-of two subscribing witnesses. Vancouver 18th January 1909. Y

. WALTER In the presence of- A. G. WOOLSEY, 1 RowLAND BRITIAIN.

